Brian R. Johnson, Ph.D. creator of Therapeutic Cinema and the Getting Unstuck web site.
	Dr Johnson is a clinical psychologist currently in private practice in Claremont, California, and a instructor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses  He received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles.  His dissertation was on stress reactions to motion pictures and the variables that predict these.  This is a topic on which he has published other research. Dr Johnson has used motion pictures as a therapeutic aid both in his practice and when he was Clinical Director of Adult Treatment and Partial Hospitalization at  Rancho Lindo Hospital in Southern California.  He developed a special group in which he used movies to promote involvement with and group discussion of various issues such as those listed on these pages.  This proved to provide a beneficial and powerful therapeutic experience. It is not surprising that Dr Johnson has both a professional and personal interest in movies.  He grew up in Los Angeles close to the Twentieth Century Fox, M.G.M. and old Selznick lots (where the sets from Gone With The Wind were still standing).  His cousin, James Crabe, ASC, was an Emmy winning and Oscar nominated Director of Photography whose films included Rocky, The China Syndrome, The Karate Kid, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and Save The Tiger.  Dr Johnson's uncle, Lyall Crabe, was an animator who worked at Disney, Warner Brothers, Hanna-Barbera, Walter Lantz and other studies during his career.  Dr Johnson's daughter, Colette Cugno, has produced feature films including the a little gem, Raw Nerve.  Most recently she has worked at Lions Gate.  His son, Eric Johnson, is a part time stunt person. Dr Johnson was the psychological consultant on the film, Tax Man, directed by Avi Nesher which was opened in September 1999.
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